Dear Ghana Police,

Let’s be even clearer.

Dear Ghana Police,

Writing and issuing a second statement late in the night to insist you have served a purported application for an injunction does nothing.

You state in this second publication that you served the process on lawyers of organisers of the demonstration.

You purport to exhibit to this publication what must be the notice served on you a month ago by the law-abiding citizens on which they indicated the address of their lawyers.

Let’s be clear about this. A country that is in this broke state after an IMF bailout ought not entertain this conduct by the police to unconstitutionally and unlawfully stifle citizens’ most basic human and constitutionally guaranteed rights to demonstrate and express their suffering.

All lovers of democracy must fight the creeping unconstitutional fetters to citizens’ inalienable birthrights enshrined in Article 21 of the Constitution 1992. We must not leave this to the Democracy Hub or #FixTheCountry.

“It is upon the fight against corruption that we may forge ourselves a decent existence.” That’s Kissi Agyebeng, the Special Prosecutor’s philosophy. The corruption fight is a collective one for our individual and collective good as a people and nation.

Dear Electoral Commission of Ghana, Article 45 of the Constitution instructs you “to undertake programmes for the expansion of the registration of voters”. You are inviting an estimated 1.4 million citizens who are not on the voters’ roll to your district offices to register from September 12 – October 2, 2023. Now almost all political parties have kicked against your decision to limit the process to only your district offices.

Illegal mining or galamsey and its devastation can be stopped. The President with all the awesome powers of the State has lost the fight. The patriot and accomplished surgeon – first to perform open-heart surgery in the country, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng is battling costly defamation suits for fighting galamsey.

Every responsible police commander I have known since I started driving some 20 years ago, has confirmed the law and cautioned against officers impounding vehicles on account of a driver’s inability to produce a driver’s licence upon demand for inspection.

Suicidal soldier - CDS to the rescue. That was my first title upon receiving the good news. But I had to remind myself it is a series whose title must not depart from the previous ones in the last three weeks.

An officer of the Ghana Armed Forces has been locked up in their guardroom in Michel Camp, Tema, since November 2022. That’s is 6 months without a charge and without trial. Yet Ghana is a democracy of rule of law. This is in violation of their own rules requiring that an officer facing discipline and in custody must be released if not tried after 90 days.

Reports and viral video evidence of people assaulting security officers are dangerous and as disturbing as police and military officers abusing each other in public. It is most unhelpful if the public is not given information about and resolution of situations such as the recent brawl between soldiers and the police in front of the police headquarters. It must be swift, through and truthful.